angie's list is a proud sponsor of "ask this old house." [ grunting ] man! what we need is some elbow grease. [ laughs ] yeah, you can -- are you kidding me? gmc -- lending "ask this old house" a helping hand since 2002. greg, i really like the house and i love that all the plants are starting to flower. that means it's spring and spring is time to mulch. yeah, actually roger, every year about this time in the springtime we order about three or four yards from our local garden center, throw the mulch right on top of what we got. three to four yards of mulch is a lot, and putting it on top of each other, it builds up over time and too much mulch is bad. an inch or two is perfect. that'll allow water and air to get down in the roots. but take a look at this azalea. these branches are buried in mulch and you can't even see the main trunk of the plant. you take and scrape all this off and lookit, easily i'm getting four to six inches of old mulch off of the plant. now the branches are up in the air and you can see the main stem right there. yeah. so we need to s